How does my lighting plan look?

[AKMac]

Hi guys, I'm just wondering if I can get some insight into my lighting layout.

I'm trying to light up a 6 car attached garage. Each bay is about 23ft wide, with the deep bay being a little over 40 ft wide. The ceiling is about 10ft. The walls and ceiling are painted glossy white.

Currently I have a pitiful 6 light bulbs to light the entire garage. Since the garage is finished my plan is to replace those with 2-bulb T8's and add new fixtures with conduit to a 100amp subpanel that I'm installing.

The existing lights are represented in "green". The rest I plan to add are represented in yellow. Each light switch circuit is a different color (blue, pink, etc) for a total of 6 switches and the main trunk is red.

My biggest concern is that as it sits, the fixtures are about 5ft away from the walls. My gut tells me this will be ok, but I just wanted to see if anyone thinks differently? I should have about 130 lumen per sq ft.

 

[AKMac]

no one?

 

[sammm]

Looks like plenty of light. Mounted off to the side will produce fewer shadows than straight overhead (if that's a concern).

 

[pattenp]

Have you figured out what the lumens per sqft you'll have with the 33 fixtures? Each two tube fixture should output about 5600 lumens, so that's 184800 lumens for the 33 fixtures. Divide the 184800 by the sqft to get the average lumens per sqft. I suggest no less than 100 on the low end and 150 on the high end.

 

[AKMac]

Should be around 130 lumens per sq ft.

My biggest concern is the 5ft gap between the wall and the fixture.

 

[pattenp]

Lighting layouts I've seen and the way I did mine was to have fixtures along a wall to be half the distance that is between the next fixture. Example is if the area is 24ft wide with four fixtures the fixtures are placed like this.... wall 3ft Fixture 6ft Fixture 6ft Fixture 6ft Fixture 3ft wall.

 

[bczygan]

lighting layouts i've seen and the way i did mine was to have fixtures along a wall to be half the distance that is between the next fixture. Example is if the area is 24ft wide with four fixtures the fixtures are placed like this.... Wall 3ft fixture 6ft fixture 6ft fixture 6ft fixture 3ft wall.

this!